Dragonlance - Raistlin Chronicles 2 - Brothers in Arms by Margaret Weis & Don Perrin

Author:Margaret Weis & Don Perrin [Weis, Margaret & Perrin, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Dragons, Monsters, Magic, Heroes
ISBN: 9780786961658
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Published: 2011-10-11T07:00:00+00:00

The citizens on the walls looked at each other in astonishment and consternation. This was certainly not what they had expected. After some jostling, the lord mayor came forward to reply.

"We . . . we want to negotiate," he cried.

"What?" the commander bawled.

"Negotiate!" the mayor yelled desperately.

"All right." Kholos sat back more comfortably on his horse. "I'll negotiate. Do you surrender?"

"No," said the lord mayor, drawing himself up with dignity. "We do not."

"Then you die." The commander shrugged. "There, we negotiated."

"What happens if we surrender?" a voice shouted from the crowd.

Kholos laughed, sneered. "I'll tell you what hap-pens if you surrender. You make my life a whole lot easier. Here are your terms. First, all able-bodied men will put down their arms, leave the city, and form a line, so that my slave-masters may take a good look at you. Second, all young and comely women will form a line so that I may take my pick. Third, the remainder of the citizens of Hope's End will haul out their treasure and stack it up here, at my feet. Those are your terms for surrender."

"This is . . . this is unconscionable!" the lord mayor gasped. "Such terms are outrageous! We would never accept!" Commander Kholos turned his horse's head and galloped back to his camp, his guards following him.

The people of Hope's End prepared for battle, prepared for killing, prepared to die.

They believed they defended a cause. They believed they fought against an injustice. They had no idea that the war wasn't about them, that they were nothing more than small disposable pieces in a greater cosmic game, that the dread general who had ordered this attack hadn't even known the name of the city until he looked it up on a map, that the commanders of the newly formed dragonarmies viewed this as a training exercise.

The people of Hope's End believed that at least their deaths might count for something, when in reality, the smoke rising from the ashes of the city's funeral pyres would form a single dark cloud in an otherwise lovely blue sky, a single dark cloud that would be torn to shreds in the chill wind of the waning day, vanish, and be forgotten.

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